Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold its own alongside Mozart's Don Giovanni" (TIME, Dec. 25). Record buyers last week could judge Landon's estimate for themselves. The society's complete recording of Orfeo, with six soloists and the Vienna State Opera chorus and orchestra under Hans Swarowsky, made six fascinating LP sides...
Charley Christian, Jazz Immortal (Esoteric; 2 sides LP). A little of the disorganized noise from Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where bop came into its own, plus some agile string-picking by the late great Goodman guitarist...
...Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia 8 sides LP). Collectors who have been scrounging in secondhand stores for years in search of battered copies of Armstrong classics can relax and enjoy more than three hours of Satchmo's trumpeting-from the free-for-all New Orleans style (Gut Bucket Blues, Heebie Jeebies) to his comparatively slicked-up versions of Stardust and Body and Soul...
...Mood (Jerry Gray; Decca; 2 sides LP). The wowing brasses and wailing reeds that made Glenn Miller a U.S. favorite ten years ago are faithfully reproduced by this new West Coast band leader, who used to be Miller's arranger...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Luigi Infantine, tenor; Carlo Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...